Our new favorite place

We got a membership to Costco and we love it. We love going to the snack bar to eat. We can eat for about five bucks. A hot dog and a drink is only $1.50!

Can you believe that!? It is a poor couples dream!

Grandma Layton is 50!!

We love you and hope that your day goes great!

We wish we could be there to celebrate with you!

Zoee got stuck.

She climbed in the stroller and got stuck. She tried to climb out but couldn't. I tried to get her out and her head was really stuck. I really kinda worried for a minute but with a little manuevering, I got her out. It was hilarious!

Chicken Little

Zoee is a chicken for Halloween. We went to a trunk or treat on Wednesday and took lots of pictures. She looked so cute. I took her to another one tonight (my babysitter invited me to theirs, so we went) We dressed her up again and they had a costume contest. There were about 30 kids and Zoee won! I kinda felt bad because we aren't even in that ward but I was awfully proud of my baby chick!




This one is really funny because when we stopped to take the picture, Nate squatted down and Zoee copied him. It was funny. She is just too cute.

I thought they melted in your mouth, not on your face...

We gave Zoee a little bag of M&M's. If you can't tell, she really liked them. She liked them so much that she wanted to smear them all over her face. It was really funny. She came walking in the kitchen and had it all over her face. We started to laugh and then she got really embarrassed and started to cry. It was really funny. Is it ok to laugh when you kid cries?

Just Like Grandpa Layton

Grandpa sent Zoee these pajamas. They have hammers, screw drivers, wrenches, and other little tools all over them. I should have expected him to pick pajamas like these. Even though she is a girl, he is bound and determined to make her a tool lover just like him. I think if they made pajamas like this in his size, he would have a pair!

Jack O'Lanterns

I kinda forgot to post the end results of our carving party. Don't they look good?

Roller coaster ride

I think Zoee is going to love roller coasters just like her mom and dad!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins and Pumpkins

So we watched Nate's sisters kids this weekend. They have 4 kids but we only had three of them. Sydney (7), Autsin (almost 5), and Seth (3). We had them Friday night thru tonight. It was a good weekend. We had lots of fun on Saturday night. We ordered pizza and then took the kids to a pumpkin patch. They loved looking at all the pumpkins and wanted to buy almost every one they saw. We didn't end up buying any there because they were really expensive. This is how they do it in Vegas...they section off a corner of the parking lot of a grocery store, line up hay bales, put the pumpkins out and call it a pumpkin patch while charging a 15.00 to 30.00 a pumpkin. It is crazy. I am used the the real pumpkin patches where the pumpkins are still on the vine and you just go out in the feild and find the one you like. It is much different here but it was still fun. We ended up taking the kids to Wal-mart and letting them pick out one from the big cardboard box out front. We got 4 pumpkins for the price of one. Thanks to Wal-mart. Here are some pictures of the patch.

Why I don't let Nate do Zoee's hair!

Our little artist...

Yesterday was a fun day. I got home from work and Zoee was still asleep so I got to take a nap! It was really nice. After she woke up, we got ready and went to dinner. We went to a mexican place in one of the casinos. It was really good. It was cool because they have a salsa bar with a bunch of different kinds of salsas that you can try. There were some really good ones. Zoee got crayons to color with and had lots of fun. She was screaming so loud (good screaming) and making so much noise. It was a little embarrasing but she was cute. When we left, Nate put her on his shoulders to walk out to the car. She loves to rub his head. I guess she likes the feel of buzzed hair. Well, she still had the crayons in her hand and little did we know, she was drawing on his head. It was quite funny and we had a good laugh. After dinner we went to do a little shopping for Cody's wedding. We found some nice pants for Nate and Zoee got to go to the toy store. Here are a few pictures from our day. It was lots of fun.

Why I love Vegas...

Palm trees, palm trees and more palm trees! I love palm trees and I love that they are every where down here. It looks so cool. It is one of the reasons I love it here, and the fact that it is almost November and we are still in capris and flip flops and the days are between 75-80. Geez, it's nice!

Already peeing the bed.

When Nate went to get Zoee up from her nap today he found that she had taken her diaper off and peed in her bed. Why would she do that? She has been doing strange things lately. The other day, she took her diaper off, walked into the laundry room, shut the door and peed on the floor. I just can't figure it out. I don't know if she is doing it on purpose because she knows when she has to go or if she just likes to play with her diaper and pull it off. I am stumped.

Making a mess

Zoee is a disaster. She is always dragging her toys out into the living room. One of her favorite things to do is to empty out the laundry basket after I have done the laundry. I don't know why she thinks this is fun but she will take all the clean clothes and throw them all over the room. She is crazy! No matter how many times we pick up, our apartment is never clean! The other night, I went into the bedroom for a minute and came back and this is what I found.

Nose Spray

Things are good here. Zoee is doing better. The doctor has her on 3 medicines. One is a syrup and she takes that just fine. One is a powder that we have to mix with something and I have found that it is best to mix it with pudding and the other is nose spray. I wondered and worried about how she would handle nose spray. I know I hate that feeling so I was concerned about how to do it to a one year old. We tried it the first night and it went fine. The 2nd night was better, she didn't even care. Now she just laughs everytime I do it. It is really funny. I don't know if it just kinda tickles or what but she kinda just sits there and then starts to laugh. She is such a cute girl. We love her so much and can't imagine our life without her.

Happy Birthday Snots...a day late!

It was aunt Kaylee's birthday yesterday and we made her a video and we wanted to share it. We hope she had a great day.

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Sick Zoee

Zoee is sick. She had a fever and was not feeling well all weekend. Sunday was the worst. She just wanted to be held all day. We kept giving her Tylenol and she would feel better for a few hours and then it would wear off and she was back to feeling crappy. I called in sick today at work and we took her to the doctor. Her fever had gone down quite a bit but he looked in her ears and throat. Her tonsils were very red and had some yellow puss like things on them. He did a strep test but it came back negative so he said it's just a virus. He did a test on her ears and found that there was some fluid behind her right eardrum. He gave us three different medicines to help it clear up. Hopefully it will. We have to take her back to see him in 2 weeks. If it hasn't cleared up, he will send us to an ear, nose and throat doctor to see about putting tubes in that ear. I really hope it clears up. I don't want her to have to have tubes in her ears. I guess we will see.

We cant wait!

We are on our way! Cody is getting married so we get to go home. I am really excited to see my family and for them to see Zoee. We got a really great deal on flights so we are going to be flying instead of driving which makes it so much better. One hour on a plane compared to 7 hours in a car. I'll take the plane please.

Zoee is a book worm

Zoee loves books. I guess that is a good thing. She has a book shelf in her room and it is full of books. She loves to sit and look and them and then likes to scatter them all over the house. Her new favorite one is the animal book. It just has real pictures of animals. She will look at it and laugh and bark. Barking is the only animal sound she knows so she barks at everything. It is funny to watch her.

Zoee's laugh